A vast intelligence program is to establish a global biometric
database known as "Server in the Sky" that will collate
and provide an " International Information Consortium"
with access to the biometric measurements and personal information
of citizens of the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand in
the name of fighting the "war on terror".

As reported by the London
Guardian, he plan is being formulated by the FBI
with the cooperation of the home offices and law enforcement agencies
of American allies.

Biometric measurements, irises or palm prints
as well as fingerprints, and other personal information are
likely to be exchanged across the network.

The FBI told the Guardian: "Server in the
Sky is an FBI initiative designed to foster the advanced search
and exchange of biometric information on a global scale. While
it is currently in the concept and design stages, once complete
it will provide a technical forum for member nations to submit
biometric search requests to other nations. It will maintain
a core holding of the world's 'worst of the worst' individuals.
Any identifications of these people will be sent as a priority
message to the requesting nation."

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Of course as well as holding the information of the world's 'worst
of the worst', the database will also eventually hold the records
of every other citizen who has ever traveled in and out of the
member states, or has ever been arrested with or without charge.

Britain's National Policing Improvement Agency has been the
lead body for the FBI project because it is responsible for
IDENT1, the UK database holding 7m sets of fingerprints and
other biometric details used by police forces to search for
matches from scenes of crimes. Many of the prints are either
from a person with no criminal record, or have yet to be matched
to a named individual.

Any non national now entering the US must provide an Iris scan
and ten fingerprints. This week has also seen Britain enact
legislation ensuring that anyone applying for a visa
from 133 countries covering three quarters of the world’s
population now has their fingerprints checked against UK databases.

Police in Britain also hold vastly
more DNA samples than any other country in the Western
world, and many are from people who have never committed a crime.
More than three million samples have been added to the national
DNA database - more than 5 per cent of the population, and this
is rising exponentially.

We have previously noted that the vast array of databases currently
being employed by intelligence agencies, government and law enforcement
agencies worldwide were designed
to be linked together in a system which will tie
in the management and control of all facets of life for citizens
to one central hub.

The Guardian report on "Server in the Sky" further
notes

IDENT1 was built by the computer technology arm of the US defence
company Northrop Grumman. In future it is expected to hold palm
prints, facial images and video sequences. A company spokeswoman
confirmed that Northrop Grumman had spoken to the FBI about
Server in the Sky. "It can run independently but if existing
systems are connected up to it then the intelligence agencies
would have to approve," she said.

The component systems have been designed by the military industrial
complex to strengthen and perpetuate its own existence.

The news of the global database network dovetails with announcement
that US National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing
up plans
for cyberspace spying that would make the current
debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park".

The plan would mean giving the government the authority to examine
the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search.

Last month it was revealed that another military spy agency,
the NSA has increasing
control over SSL, now called Transport Layer Security,
the cryptographic protocol that provides secure communications
on the internet for web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and
other data transfers.

In other words the agency is capable of intercepting and reading
your emails and instant messages in real time.

At the same time a lawyer
for an AT&T engineer went public with claims
that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration
was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’
phone usage.” That is BEFORE 9/11, before the nation was
embroiled in the freedom stripping exercise commonly known as
the "war on terror" had even begun.

This swell of surveillance activity was also enhanced with news
that Department of Homeland security is forging ahead and finalizing
plans to use a network
of spy satellites for domestic surveillance. The
DHS plans to create a new department branch called the National
Applications Office to oversee the program and be responsible
for providing images from the satellites to non military law enforcement
agencies.

After 9/11 the work of 16 different intelligence agencies, including
the CIA and the giant National Security Agency, which eavesdrops
on international communications, as well as the Energy Department
and the Drug Enforcement Administration was centralized under
the office of the Director
of National Intelligence.